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A falcon is a bird of prey, but may also be:
Aircraft
- F-16 Fighting Falcon, fighter aircraft
- Dassault Falcon, family of business jets manufactured by Dassault Aviation
- Rolls-Royce Falcon, First World War Aero engine used in the Bristol F.2 Fighter
- Force Application and Launch from Continental United States (FALCON), hypersonic Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle currently in development by Lockheed Martin
Rocketry
- Falcon 1, Falcon 5 and Falcon 9, space launch vehicle made by SpaceX
- AIM-4 Falcon, first operational guided air-to-air missile of the US Air Force
- AGM-76 Falcon, experimental US high speed nuclear strike air-to-surface missile
Transportation
- Ford Falcon, motor car
- Falcon (car make), British automobile manufacturer
- British Rail Class 53 Falcon, 1961 lightweight electric-diesel locomotive
Entertainment
- Falcon (comics), comic book superhero
- The Falcon (literary character), detective created by Michael Arlen in 1940; later featured in a series of motion pictures
- Falcon (computer game), series of combat flight simulator computer games
- The Falcon (band), Chicago punk rock band
- Lt. Falcon, Green Beret character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero series
- Falcon Studios, Gay pornographic film company
- Falcon, Ninja Power Source for White Ranger Tommy Oliver in the second season of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
- Captain Falcon is the portagonist from Nintendo's game, F-Zero.
Sports
- Atlanta Falcons, American NFL football team based in Georgia
- Newcastle Falcons Rugby team based in Newcastle, England
- New Zealand (Australian rules football National Team), called the Falcons
- Falcon (sport), humourous term for being hit on the head by the ball
Other uses
- Falcón, Venezuelan state
- FALCON (cable system), submarine communications cable connecting several countries in the Persian Gulf and India
- Atari Falcon, computer based on the Motorola 68030 CPU
- Christopher Boyce, nicknamed Falcon, American traitor and walk-in Soviet spy
- Bryggeri AB Falken, a brewery in Falkenberg, Sweden
- Falcon Living, real estate brokerage in Chicago, Illinois
- Millennium Falcon, The Millennium Falcon
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